Even at the age of 11 Malala Yousafzai, the teenage activist being treated in
the UK after an assassination attempt last week, delivered her message with
poise and power.

A video interview shot in 2009 shows a young girl with an impressive grasp of English and a cool analysis of what's wrong with Pakistan.

In it, she describes life under the Pakistan Taliban when they controlled her home town in the Swat Valley and reveals her own manifesto for peace.

Last week the Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility for an attempt on her life. The 14-year-old is currently being treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.

In the interview three years ago, she said that she used to listen to Taliban messages delivered by FM radio forbidding girls to go to school - instructions she ignored.

"So in that time, we used to go to school in our home dresses instead of school uniform and we used to hide our books under our shawls to pretend we that are not students," she said in the video obtained by Now This News.

Education, she added, was crucial for turning people away from extremism - a conclusion that many much older leaders have struggled to reach.

"I want to say to the world, that you must try to get education because it's very important. The second thing is that if the new generation is not given a pens. they will be given guns by the terrorists.

"It is also important that we should say no to wrong. And if there is something going wrong we must have the confidence to say that this thing is going wrong, and we must raise our voice."

Malala sprang to prominence in Pakistan last year when she was revealed as the anonymous author of a diary published by the BBC detailing Taliban abuses in 2009.

In an interview last year, she also set out her ambition to work for peace as a politician.

"I'll study law and then I'll go into politics and become a politician to change the policies of Pakistan. We want to make friendship with India - a good friendship - and we want to solve the problems with India and Pakistan," she said.